The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-03-26

that prompts this foregoing assertion,
Yet "A few of the articles ordered by him
and paid for by the county, although not in
cluded nor charged to him in the conclusion
of this report, may be of interest, to WIT:
oedstead, $3.50; | wire spring, $500;
mattress, S. 80; pair OF pillows, 81 90;
pair Of pillow covers and sheets, Sl.21;
| mattress, - 90; pair of blankets,
$500; pair Of blank Is, $3.50; pair
of blankets, $3.50 total SOL ,O5-thi'
ough, to make pretty good bed for
prisoner but add to this = quilts at So
each, and We have Sj5.55, the thing com
peted. Blankets raging in prices from II
10 to $500 per pair, shirts at $500 per
dozen, clothes pins, clothes wringers
clothes lines, cupboard, $780, bread
chest, SGs7 perforated tin tea
strainers for teakettles, copper bottom
on teakettle, repairs on coffee boiler and
kettle, spoons cups mopsticks, coal hods,
tacks, bread knife, calico by the hundred
yards, muslin, buttons, thread, skirts, cor.
sets, hose, shoes, drawers, dress goods,
coaks, hoods, sponges AMI ointment, vests,
pants suits of clothes, oyercoats ETC., stove
boards, meatsaw, dishpans, screwdrivers,
fork handles, copper riyets, steel punch,
bake pan, nails and rat traps all appear to
have been necessaries Of the sheriff : office.
With two teams, he could start the same
day, one deputy to Rutland, Adams and
Earl second to Deer Park, Hope and
Utica third to Deer Park and La Sale,
all At 800 per day going and - 90 per day
returning For livery to Dayton, the county
has paid Millilan 81 %, dinner SOC, horse
feed SOC. and - 90 for returning, making
an expense to the comfy for the trip 500
This we presume to be the necessary travel
ing expense that the board fixed before he en-
tered upon the duties of his Office, couse-
quently does not figure in our computation
to follow. In the matter of dieting prison.
ers, jOc per day or 81 80 per week would
satisfy man not avariciously insane; but
not content with that, he has added TO that
account S8l days at 5Oc per day, making
siiO.50. Charged and collected turnkey
fees from county, $4,000, made errors
in footings and extension Sli3 80, charged
and collected from the county $4,000
for attendance on the supreme and
appellate courts, after having received the
.ame from the state, and receiving his sal.
State Auditor for conveying prisoners to
and reform school SS5l5 more
han he has reported to the county. Charged
md collected from the county $2Ol for re
urning Russell, a fugitive from justice, after
having been paid in full by the State Audi.
or for the said service and drawing his
alary for the same time. That he has
to the county and collected s 1926
or returning one Owen Fox, II fugitive from
Justice, and his son. W. L. Milligan, u depu
y in the employ of the county, was paid by
he State Auditor in full for the same service,
nd salary paid by the county during the time
mployed. That he has retained from fees
n his hands the sum Of 81 396.56 for travel
ng expenses for the one half year ending
)ec. 4th, 1885, presented sworn bill for
he same amount covering the same time to
he court house and Jail committee collected
I second time and yet retains it. That he
las used his deputies as custodans of goods
evied upon, and in many instances re aimed
heir fees to the amount Of thousands of dol
ars from property sold, drawn the salaries
# the deputies from the county for the
anne time, and returned nothing to the
county as the product Of their labor, except
he remark, "My fees retained, w. Il. Mil
igan, Sheriff
The sum total of his populations illegally
lrawn, collected, and yet retained by him,
30 far as we have been able to ascertain up
10 the present time, without computing in
terest on the same, amounts to SS,996O4,
with every prospect of the amount being
largely increased as the work Of following
The different avenues of leakage progresses.
Total drawn from treasury, 500, 4OS.67;
in fees by sheriff, $l3, 525 40 dep
uties' salaries paid from treasury SlS 500:
total paid sheriff from treasury, S97, 534 o.;
paid from state treasury, 81 ,366.97; total
received as far as now known, S9S,S9l.O4;
returned to county treasury, S24, 9O2Si;
balance in sheriff's hands for four years,
S73, 1888 20; claims yet due him. S2,2i942;
asking for four years the sum Of $40, 2376
See tabluated statement hereto attached and
made part of this report In view of the
facts set forth in the above, your committee
would recommend that the work Of
continue under the di
reclion and instruction of the county
attorney, and prosecution be insti-
tuted AS fast as criminaliy appears certain
not only to punish the guilty, but to deter
the innocent in the future from falling into
like practices Also that the county attor-
ney M. I. Moloney) be and is hereby autho-
riaed to make demand upon each and every
officer or eX-othcer to return TO the treasury
every dollar unjustly drawn or retained
thereirom by them or either Of them; and
further, that the said attorney be and is
hereby authorized to make such full and
final settlement with the said officers, their
attorneys or bondsmen as he may deem to
the best interests of the county. Also that he
(the county attorney be empowered to EN-
ploy and retain such assistance as he may
deem necessary to carry into full force and
effect the foregoing recommendations Under
the authority given Ivy us he board, the cour-
nit &c calcl to their assistance Supe, visrrs
Glbbs, Maierhofer and BuIterfeld, who have
labored untrngly and whose services have
been of great value to the committee, and we
cannot close this report without giving them
this word record of our appreciation Of the
services so rendered
All of which is most respectfully sub,
mitted.
w. II. NORTON, Chairman.
HENRY GUNN.
BASIL GREEN.
FRED ". Fades.
WIN. J. DIVER.
At the conclusion of the reading of the
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